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Monday, June 30, 2014

Pakistan started fasting under a bed of lies as
Religion is BIG business these days!

Disclaimer!Before
you read on please note that I personally do not belong to a radical school of
thought and realize that we as a nation are progressing ahead but I also
strongly believe that any kind of progress where core principles and values are
shunned is not progress rather a destruction of a society!Maybe I was born in a wrong time where I
lived through and witnessed the innocent era when we had freedom before
democracy was business and religion was not political!

Being your average Pakistani
every year multiple times somehow my ability to feed my family comes into
question because our cities are shut down!For those political factions we have the strong arm of the law BUT on
the other hand when some people use Religion as a convenient excuse even the
Armed forces with their educated Muftis start to question how to tackle such emotionally
sensitive matters! The likes of any and
every cleric has one goal and that is to get them selves the maximum amount of
media air time!Sadly the presses
themselves are so confused that they oblige and the global community sees us a
raving ranting lunatic radicals and compensates us with travel advisories etc.!

We have had to digest a
Pashtun Chameleon who came into the limelight as a cricketer morphed himself
into a social worker that wanted to eradicate cancer then flipped one night to
save Pakistan when he turned politician that we accepted as an educated
alternative from what we had to vote for but somehow regurgitated our loyalty
when we realized we would be better of dealing with lions than bear with five
years of an inconsistent school of thought and shifting policies!

We are also now surviving our
Disco Maulvi who has arrived with a Maple Leaf yet again to bully us into piety
when he himself has confused video confessions about his stance on blasphemy
and the amount of years he spent dreaming that he was under the tutelage of an
Imam in our nightmares!

Sadly these two fair and
lovely poster boys are now threatening to band together and under the guise of
our Holy religion mislead the government into what the world press will see as
a short win in a battle that they could not possibly fight without western
allies and a war that it could never win unless these two clowns were the main
act in this political cum religious circle of lies!

I wish that every cleric
would put down their calculator and stop fantasizing about the immense wealth
they are grabbing by counting the amount of Zakat we tax paying citizens are
dutifully submitting and start focusing upon the lies we began Ramzan with this
year!Here are a few examples of how
misleading advertisements by some desperate managers make us question morality
and common sense!

Coca Cola ignoring family
values started the lying game wit their “Ramzan share a coke with your Mom” campaign

and
immediately followed by Pepsi who answered on screen with the “Pepsi Ramzan
Family” theme… if you actually ask
anyone including the World Health Organization you will realize that “Mothers
are the worst enemies to any cola company” because in the media guidelines it
is illegal for them to advertise caffeinated, carbonated beverages to anyone
under the age of 16 (sixteen)

Not to be left behind the
Telco industry is always one who for 11 months of the year gobbles up any and
all airtime available globally!Mobilink
just after being accused of false advertising and misleading information(http://propakistani.pk/2014/06/26/mobilink-deceives-38-million-customers-misleading-tvc/
) decides to jazz up ramzan by having a Blood red theme with some hottie who is
sitting whilst she has her legs apart (looks like a mujra scene) and has the
cheek to release a tag line “Poora Din, Poori Raat”…This is not the right message to be sent out
in the month of abstinence!

As its about food and deals
we all know that fast food is not at all healthy so Nando’s does one better and
slaps out and advert (Billboards included) that somehow suggests dating during
Iftar to the younger lot who read it!

If there is humility to be
displayed an in Ramzan if its about moderation then this clothing advert does no justice at all to the concept of
Ramadan Dressing at all!

There are many examples out
there of what is wrong but my main point is why do people need to be so
desperate enough to lie and more why do we as a “progressive” nation choose to
believe those lies yet thinking that in these thirty days we will cleanse our
souls of everything!

The point that I am making
here is that you have “Twenty Nine” days left to do things right!Start thinking for your self and as you have
to “control” yourself then also do so with your emotions and for once leave
emotion OUT of your decisions related to business and everyday life!This Ramzan I will pray that we as a nation
become numb to the politics of emotions that are used to abuse our daily lives
and are able to think pragmatically and sensibly!

Mubarak to you reading this
if you were fasting as you have just completed your first Roza of 2014!May Allah shower you with strength, health
and bless you with the courage to keep all of them until the moon is a crescent
again!

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